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Google introduces new views in Maps for driving, navigation, and transit to better highlight relevant information, new colors and icons for places of interest — The world is an ever-evolving place. And as it changes, Google Maps changes with it. As roads close, businesses open …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb acquired adtech startup AdBasis on Nov. 13; AdBasis will be available to customers until Feb. 2018 and team will be brought into Airbnb — It looks like accessibility isn't the only thing that Airbnb wants to upgrade on its platform. On the same day that Airbnb announced that it acquired Accomable …
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Facebook rebrands Mentions, which was only available for verified accounts, as Creator app, opens it to all; app available on iOS now, and Android within months — Facebook wants to turn mindless, passive video consumption into “time well spent,” and now it's giving social media stars … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Apple VP of diversity and inclusion Denise Young Smith is leaving; Christie Smith, who spent 17 years as a principal at Deloitte, will be taking over — Apple's first-ever vice president of diversity and inclusion, Denise Young Smith, is leaving Apple at the end of this year, TechCrunch has learned.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase announces Custody, a digital asset storage service for institutional clients with a minimum of $10M in deposits; early access product launching in 2018 — Cryptocurrency wallet and exchange startup Coinbase is launching a new storage service aimed specifically at institutional investors.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Report: Mashable has agreed to sell itself to Ziff Davis for around $50M, a fraction of the site's $250M valuation less than two years ago — Digital-media firm Mashable has clinched a sale for the company — and it's not for a price that founder Pete Cashmore or investors including Turner were looking for.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS releases ONNX-MXNet, giving its support to the Open Neural Network Exchange introduced by Microsoft and Facebook earlier this year — The Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) deep-learning format, introduced in September by Microsoft and Facebook, has a new backer following Amazon Web Services' decision …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find flaw in Amazon Key that lets any computer in WiFi range freeze and disable Cloud Cam; Amazon says a fix is coming later this week — WHEN AMAZON LAUNCHED its Amazon Key service last month, it also offered a remedy for anyone—realistically, most people …
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Tweets: @pierce, @a_greenberg, @rtg0nzalez, and @lmatsakis
| Lauren Hirsch / CNBC: |
Online personal shopping startup Stitch Fix raises $120M in downsized IPO listing, pricing 8M shares at $15 apiece, below expected 10M shares at $18-$20 — - Stitch Fix has touted its profitability, but its earnings recently took a hit from one-time items — Online personal shopping …
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Wall Street Journal, NASDAQ.com, New York Times, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @delrey
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google says it will require close content parity between AMP and original pages beginning February 2018 to discourage publishers from using AMP pages as teasers — Google is cracking down on link baiting — Google today announced a forthcoming update to its Accelerated Mobile Pages …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces general availability of its free chatbot analytics platform Chatbase — At Google I/O this year, Google quietly introduced a new chatbot analytics platform called Chatbase, a project developed within the company's internal R&D incubator, Area 120.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases iOS 11.1.2 With Fix for Unresponsive iPhone X Display in Cold Temperatures — Apple today released iOS 11.1.2, the seventh official update to the iOS 11 operating system. iOS 11.1.2 comes just one week after Apple released iOS 11.1.1, an update that addressed a pesky and widespread autocorrect bug.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC votes 3-2 to scale back the federal Lifeline program that gives low-income households a $9.25/month subsidy to buy Internet or phone service — 70% of low-income wireless subscribers in Lifeline could have to find new ISPs. — Poor people may soon find it more difficult … Sponsor Posts
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